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NBC's Lauer Cites CIA 'Torture' Scenes in Bin Laden Movie, Asks Whether 'Ends Justified the Means'

Source: Newsbusters, Dec 6 2012, 3:45pm CST

During a segment on Thursday's NBC Today on the upcoming film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if scenes depicting "brutal interrogations" of terror suspects would ...

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Filming to start on movie about former Merc reporter Gary Webb, who exposed CIA-cocaine link

Source: Peninsula Press Club  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:53am CDT

Filming is set to begin this summer on “Kill the Messenger,” the story of former Mercury News reporter Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who committed suicide after being smeared for exposing the CIA’s role in helping Nicaragua’s Contr ...

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Political appointees helped bin Laden filmmakers over objections of career officials at Pentagon

Source: Rantburg  |   Jun 18 2013, 8:58am CDT

[Washington Times] Political appointees at the Defense Department, the CIA and the White House brushed aside concerns from career officials about helping two Hollywood filmmakers research their 2012 movie about the top-sec ...

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27 weeks ago


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"I'm not your friend, I'm not a nice guy. And you lie to me, I'm going to hurt you."


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Obama Appointes Aided bin Laden Filmmakers

Source: NewsMax  |   Jun 17 2013, 10:23pm CDT

Despite the objections of Pentagon career officials, political appointees at the CIA, Defense Department and the White House assisted the screenwriter and director of “Zero Dark Thirty” in researching their 2012 film about the top secret rai ...

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Pentagon audit finds career officials opposed efforts to help bin Laden filmmakers

Source: Washington Times  |   Jun 17 2013, 3:32pm CDT

Political appointees at the Defense Department, the CIA and the White House brushed aside concerns from career officials about helping two Hollywood filmmakers research their 2012 movie about the top secret Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ...

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2 days ago

Obama Admin Not Punishing Those Who Leaked Classified Information to 'Zero Dark Thirty' Crew

Source: Big Hollywood  |   Jun 17 2013, 12:59pm CDT

Why kind of data? Video and voice chats, videos, photos, voice over IP conversations, file transfers, login notifications and social networking details--all were collected and analyzed. “I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of thing ...

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Torture's Lasting Effects

Source: The Huffington Post  |   Jun 16 2013, 7:40pm CDT

A short-form " Sanity Board Evaluation " released this week found that a Guantánamo Bay detainee held at a CIA secret prison and tortured suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression. Regrettably, this is not surprising. ...

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3 days ago

Viewpoints: Citizens deserve to know the truth about torture

Source: Sacramento Bee  |   Jun 16 2013, 2:41am CDT

We who live in this country have long clung to the idea that transparency in government is the key to the success of democracy. Unfortunately, in recent decades, government has become more secretive and less forthcoming with information that ...

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4 days ago

Bin Laden raid report’s head- scratching omission

Source: AOL Small Business  |   Jun 14 2013, 6:43pm CDT

WASHINGTON — U.S. special operations forces who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden were in uniform and wearing nametags during a CIA award ceremony attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty," a Pentagon inspector general's r ...

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Pentagon report: Troops in bin Laden raid identified during CIA ceremony with writer on hand

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   Jun 14 2013, 6:25pm CDT

WASHINGTON — U.S. special operations forces who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden were in uniform and wearing nametags during a CIA award ceremony attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark T ...

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